WordPress Plugins

Since its public launch in 2006, we have enhanced WordPress.com with a number of add-on services to make blogging better, safer, and more fun. Many of these services are also available to self-hosted WordPress users via a series of WordPress plugins:

Jetpack — Jetpack brings the best of WordPress.com to your self-hosted WordPress site. Out of the box you get state-of-the-art security and protection features, up-time monitoring, site stats, a free global CDN that optimizes and speeds up your images, and various traffic tools like Related Posts and Publicize. Jetpack is free.

Akismet — Spammers can take the fun out of blogging by polluting the comments on your WordPress site. Akismet blocks 99.9% of spam from reaching your blog. Turn Akismet on and it constantly learns and updates itself to automatically protect your site. Free and paid options available.

VaultPress — You invest a lot of time and energy into setting up your WordPress site and creating content for it. VaultPress protects your site with security monitoring and real-time backups of your writings, photos, videos, and your entire WordPress environment including your themes, plugins, comments, settings, and more. VaultPress is a paid service.